The Sun. — London, England, 1818-07-22 00:00:00

CoNDUCc OF THE UNITED STATES. As the followin , ,z letters have appeared in The .31...)rning Post, they may well be supposed to have been de , ived from a respectable authority, and uore certainly entitled to the attehtion of 1111 E- -ropean S:tatesinen in no ordinNry degree (II A LESTON, MAY 1. " The fate of Eao "Plot ida is still onc•riain, l int the A m ,ti can s tI t poi difooiise their deterini li.tion to possess i• Whir iii the name of coin. mon seose are the Ilrit;sli Cabinet about ? Can it he so blinded as not to perceive the conse qoen,rs Ohio n:tist re.olt from the occupation of the Floridas l,y the United States. The latter are tione alive to the advantages connected with the possession of this territory, anal, tinder these im essions, during the administration of Mr. Ma- Oi:on, a set rot law was passed, authorizing the silent to direct its seizure, in the event of its ce•,ion to, or ocenpatioo by, a foreign Power be ing contemplated. 1 his law has been recently pro niul,rated, hut, wanting a better pretext for the violation of the Spanish property, they have car ried on a star of extermination against the Semi nole Indians, anti are prosecuting it in the inte rior of West Florida, where they have already seized the fortress of St. Mark's, not tar front the part of Pensacola. The Spanish Commandant NV is riot capable of resistance, and had'only to -fl-'we his protest to urbito eiry pi-out:ethos, 11 is expected that the next accounts will inform us of their beirg on the River St. John's - . St. Augustine may he maintained against •them, provided the Spaniards bend them supplies ne cessary to its support. Pensacola, the Bay elf Appalachicole, of Tempo, and Bona Grande on the ‘Vest side of the Fluriclas, are ca pable of r:eceit ing the largest ships of war ; end on the East there are several inlets from whence innumerable privateers might annoy tire trade through the Gulf stream. In tact, the lint ted States, by possessing the Floridas, may control the whole of the commerce of the Gulf of IMexiio, and Great Britain mus. hazard the loss of her West India Colonies by going into a future war with America. On the contrary, by possess ing those provinces, she could effectually check the immeasurable ambition of this enterprising, but not always honest, Republic. The town of New Orleans, situated at the mouth of the Mis sissippi, promises to become tire emporium of colioncice in the Western world, and the rapidity of her progress has outstripped the most san pane calcniations. If you refer to the map, you will find that the whole of her European com merce must pass round .the promontory of East Florida, and he tributary to the political charac tf-r of that pros ince. Under these circumstances, Great Blitain, in possession of Florida, might de , ..troy her tratfe, or protect it, on condition the Alississi..pi and Louisiana divisions of North Arne tica should separate from the Union. Our Cana dian pos s . Ns i ons w on ld, by this means, acquire an extraordinary consequence, by being united with the Suuthero divisions of North America. r " !ASTON, .31:=.!,. t , The „,rl,r European Governments respc•cting the Floridian are as yet unknown i but r,ally believe they will not permit the United States to occupy these provinces. Aware of their vast portical importance, these latter, however, :we making every preparation to stize them, and unless the European Powers are prompt in their measures, the chance of defending them will be lost. You ate already aware of the war carried f) 11 against the Seminole Indians by the United States. " It is a war • of extermination, and Jackson, the United States' General, is not averse to se cond the destructive policy of his government.— The savage race is certainly untractable ; but I believe these poor unfortunates are goaded into their cruel retaliations by the Backwoocnen,who are as ferocious and as uncivilized as these savages. themselves. I have it from the authority-of their fellow-citizens, that these Backwoodmen have as little remorse in killing an Indian as they haVe in k Wing a dyer ; and they have been known, in returning from the chace with their rifles loaded, from mere wanton cruelty, to shoot down, these miserable beings ; and, although the penalty of death is attached to the crime, yet, snch • is the relaxed admiaistration of their laws, that they go unpunished ; in tact, no Officer could be found capable of executing the process of the law, for his sacrifice would be the certain consequence of such an attempt. Jackson, in his progress through the Floridas, after the Indians, has disposses,sed the Spaniards of the fortress of St. Mark's, on the Bay of APpa !oche, and, it is said, has sent a detachment against Pensacola. They have not as yet made any advance beyond Amelia Island, on the Al 'antic side of East Florida ; but the Commander of that Island, with whoin I am well acquainted', informs me, that he daily expects orders to march upon Sr. Augustine. IVere the Governor pro perly supported, there is no doubt but he would give his assailants a very worm reception. There are, however, strong reasons to con clude that his garrison cannot be depended upon. You may rely upon it, that if the United States occupy the Floridas, the whole navy of England, in the event of a war, could not pro tect the trade of the Gulf stream. Such is the importance of. the position to the American 'Union, that I believe they would even hazard a war with all the Powers of Europe, rather than see these Provinces in the bands of Great Britain, for, in that event, the IVestern and Atlantic States would soon be compelled to separate themselves from the rest. The American people, in their politi cal capacity, have advanced more rapidly than any community, either in ancient or modern history, and, if unchecked a few years longer, they will be more powerful than any European nation.— Every nerve is strained to realize all the advan tages they possess. Their internal improvements u,tc rapid, and well planned. The division of the legislative power among the States, in all matters inlet esting to their local character, is of iumbense advantage, and relieves the general Government of a mass of business through which they could not hope to wade during a session, . • and I conceive this to De the Maio support of this federative system, which is no longer problema tical, but certain, in the utility of its operations. Although 1 admire the system, and accord with many of the results, which are peculiar to itself, yet there tor, in the present state of things, many Ilefecis to he.observed, which remain for future time and Wisdom to remove. But, On the whole, the perfection to which the political institutions of those people have attained does them infinite credit, and promises to phdre them one day at the heAd of the most glorious nations of the earth." LAW INTELLIGENCE. tOtiti` OF CHANCERY, JULY 21. The Loßr CHANCELLOR, this day, on coming into Court, addressed the Bar on the present practice which - existed in it, respecting the at tend ancc of parties. His Lordship adverting to a few observations made by him on the former day, de clared his determination, in future, to strike Out of the paper all motions in which the Solicitors had not filed their briefs before Wednesday ; but this order, his Lordship observed, was not meant to extend to those cases in which leave had been specially obtained, nor to those in which all persons were at liberty to • make; at any time the Court sat, any application by motion. If, as hid frequently happened, none of 'the Counsel ap peared when called on, during the Seal, his Lord ship declared he wm.1,1 ;n - ne , qm , ly put an end to it, tor, said his Lordship, " 1 will not any longer he trifled with in this manner : it is the duty of Counsel and Solicitors to attend when their causes sre called on, and I am determined to enfOrce the present order, for, to say the least of the prac tice of which I complain—it - is very wrong to make applications to the Covert," and when they are called on for hearing not to be in attendance." Ex-parte, CRAWLEY.—FINAL JUDGMENT. Mr. Rose this day appeared on the part of one of the Commissioners (the other two being absent from town), and expressed his willingness to consent to aoy order his Lordship might be pleased to make in this important case. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he had nothing to do with the examination before the Commis sioners. The case came before his Lordship on the writ of Habeas Corpus. He had examined the warrant, and found it very defective : he had also read over the proceedings antecedent to the committal; and with all due respect for the Com missioners, he must say, that their minds had been influenced, for he cuuld not conceive that the mind of an honest man could have been other wise, under all the circumstances of the present case. His Lordship felt the difficulty under which they had laboured, and aware that those feelings most have their effect, was at a loss to know 'in what manner they could extricate themselves.— After reviewing, generally, the kw of the case, and observing on the little dependence to be placed nu law authorities iw general, his Lordship adverted to the case in which Lord Ctiiet Justice De Grey and his Colleagues had found the an swer given by the person in gttestior°"•• be • reef i woue Aenyon and his L,olleagues had come to a conclusion directly opposite. "So mtiel;," said his Lordship, " for authorities, and the opinions of Judges." Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY begged to submit, that the opinion of the Lord Chancellor was perfectly correct, as to the right of the Court to discharge the Prisoner, but wished to know if the discharge would go to the full extent in respect to the com mitment. The Loan CHANCELLOR would be cautious in discharging the bankrupt, it the objection was merely as to form, but here it was wrong in sub stance ; and, under all the circumstances, coupled with the close attention he had given to ir, he felt himself bound to discharge the Petitioner, Sir SAMUEL RomiLLY—,-My Lord, tuay I ask your Lordship, " in what way will the gaoler be authorized to discharge him i" The Loan CHANCELLOR directed the g aoler to discharge the Prisoner in the usual way, teeling, atter the able manner in which the case had been conducted, no other mode of proceeding would be collect. OPERA HOUSE..-.WATER3 V. TAYLOR. Sr SAMUEL ROMILLYwEis this (ley heard in re ply to the arguments used yesterday by Messrs. Hart, Barber, and Bell, respecting the payment of 8,6001. by Mr. Waters. The case has so often appeared in THE SUN, and thepresent question bearing no new feature, we abstaiti from entering at any length into it. It was, in the 'present in stance, an Appeal from the Judgment of his Ho nour the Vice-Chancellor, ordering time money to be paid, and which appeared at "the time in our Report ,of the proceedings of the Court in which his Honour presides. Mr. MILLS (the Solicitor of Mr. Waters) said, in reference to some obserVations • of Sir Samuel Romilly, that the question relative to the ac counts had never been agitated before the Master. Mr. TARIIANT (Mr. Taylor's Solicitor) made some pertinent remarks relative to the claim of Mr. Taylor. He said Mr. Taylor'scase had not been properly elated to the Master. The report had been drawn up. in a hurry, and consequently much against Mr. Taylor. The LORD CHANCELLOR. in fine; confirmed the jugdment of the Vice-Chancellor„ . and ordered the money to be paid into Court, observing that he had now heard all parties, and he felt himself bound to come to this conclusion. Mr. MILLS—My Lord, 1 am now placed in a very awkward situation. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Pooh ! Mr. Mips, have not you and 1 been placed in this situation for the last seven years ? Judgment of Vice-Chan cellor confirmed. Mr. KEAN, on his arrival in Paris, took up his residence at the London Hotel, at which time 160 English persons lodged there. He was al most immediately visited by T ALMA, who gave a superb dinner to Mr. KEAN, and a numerous party, on the 15th instant. Mr. KEAN WAS to leave Paris on 'Monday last, ou his route to Geneva. I , ol,•itt!, INTELLIcAINct: GUILDIIALL. ISFAnOUS TRANSACTION.-Yet retday jOil Al dirr, a ‘vatchinaa of St. Dunstan's, Flect-street, and Mora Anderson and Suraft Taylor, two com mon pipost it ut es, were brought for re-examin ation before Mr. Alderman I .Voob, charged upon suspicion of being concerned in a Most atrocious highway robbery. The facts of the case were briefly these respectable young man, baMeti Baste!, was in Ship-yard, Temple-bar, at an early hour on Fri day morning last, somewhat intoxicated, and while standing there he was attacked by three or four women of the town and two men, by whom he was severely . beaten. Among these women were the two female prisoners, who wet e most active in the attack ; and Sarah Taylor struck him ss ith such violence with some instrument, as to cause the blood to gush from his eyes and mouth in torrents. He pursued the woman Taylor into Fleet -street, and here he was again attacked by her and companions, and beaten almost senseless. By a desperate effort, be succeeded in extricat ing himself from their grasp, and the prisoner Aldin coming up, he desired him to take charge of the woman Taylor. Instead, however, of doing this, he seized hold of the prosecutor, and, in conjunction with the gang, dragged him up Bell yard, and while the prostitutes and the two men were busy in rifling his pockets, Aldin struck hint several severe blows with a bludgeon in the fncc, and on the breast• In this period the pro secutor was robbed of a 5/. and a 11. note with a quantity of silver. The work of plunder hating been completed, the prisoner Taylor, turned to Aldin, and gave charge of Mr. 'Tassel for assaulting her. Aldin immediately seized him, and with the as sistance of the gang by whom he had been robbed, dragged him along the street to St. Dunstan's watch-house, where the constable of the night took the charge from Mrs. Taylor, and the prose cutor still bleeding in a dreadful manner, and completely exhausted from the beating he had re ceived, was locked up for the night. He was, on the following day, • brought before Alderman Wood, who, upon hearing his tale, ordered him to be taken from the bar, and the three prisoners to take his place. His statement was further corroborated by a Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway, two respectable persons, who were going to Covent-garden market on the morning in question, and were induced to follow the prosecutor and the gang by seeing the blood upon the pavement.' They spoke particularly to the conduct of the two female prisoners and that of Aldin. The latter prisoner, an the present occasion, brought forward two persons to speak in his be half, but their testimony tended rather to his eli mination than otherwise. - ' • Mr. Basset, the prosecutor, attended, and re peated his former statement, without a single va riation, lie was still in a very faint state, and wore a shade over his eyes. Mr. Alden - limn IVooD, alter hearing the whole of the evidence recapitulated by the different wit nesses, said he was clearly of opinion that the three prisoners should be - committ ed for the fe- BOW-STREET. GROSS IMPOSITION.—Yesterday Jeremiah Kirke was brought to the Office from the house of Mr. Coutts, in Stratton-street, Piccadilly, and was charged before Sir N. CONANT, under the following circumstances, which appeared from the evidence of Mr. Coutts's porterand others :—Sunday even ing the prisoner went to the house of Mr. Coutts, and represented himself to be living at No. 13, Vine-street, iVistminster, where he had six chil dren ; that his wife hid experienced the kindness of Mrs. Coitus by a letter to lie-in at the Brown loW--street Hospital, anti that she had been deli vertil of twins in the Hospital on Saturday night about. nine o'clock; that his wife died on Sunday morning, and the Managers of the Hospital insisted upon his taking the corpse of his wife away that evening, and he had a small sum of money to pay, which he could not raise. The porter was moved with compassion on account of the peculiarly afflicting circum stances stated by the prisoner, and Mr. and Mrs. Coutts being particularly engaged at the time, so that he could not make the prisoner's statement known to them, be very humanely gave the pri soner a shilling, and collected 3s. 6d. more from the other servants and gave him, with which he went away. On the porter making the prisoner's statement known to Mrs. Coitus, she caused in quiries to be made at the house where he said be re sided, and also at the hospital. The prisoner called again at the' house of Mr. Coutts on Monday, and represented one of his twin children to be dead. The result of the inquiries was not then known to Mrs. Coutts ; he was therefore desired to call again. The particulars learnt upon the inquiries are shocking to relate, as to the gross impositions practised by the prisoner, under the mask of pretended deep and affecting distress : it turned out that his representation of having a wife delivered of twins and dying, in Brownlow street Hospital, was a mere invented tale, to ex tort money from the humane—no such person being in the Hospital, nor had any woman dii'd there for a considerable time pant ; but the Ma tron bad heard of similar frauds having been com mitted upon persons by a similar invented tale of woe: it was also ascertained that the prisoner did not reside its the house in Vine-street, West minster, as he represented. The prisoner called at the house of Mr. Coutts yesterday, when he was taken into custody, and brought to the Office. He was committed as a rogue and a vagabond till the Sessions. WORSHIP-STREET. , - CRUELTY 00' PatteNTs.--=-Daniel Thomas, and Sarah his'wife, were brought up and examined on a charge of cruelty and ill treatment to Frances Otterway, a child ten years old. It appeared on examination that the unfortunate girl was the daughter of the female prisoner by a former hus band, and since her second marriage she (the mother) resides wilh her present husband, at No. 6, Prince's-streer, Gibraltar fields, Bethnal green. The neighbours had been continually an noyed by the piercing screams of the child.. Some of them remonstrated with the mother, but with out avail, The screams were still ' heard rather n.)Gre p i erc ing dlan eta'. tiil Satiuday last , NC.l'e d: the cry became more penetrating and heart-reit' e in g than us'ital, and the neighbours fl o cked hc f i ° er r the door, when it was discovered ' that the mot he r was holding her for the father, who, with B„ ii i - is might, \via hugging her with a cant till her was covered with weals and bruises. The twig hours gate intorrnation td the Parish Ofli cer e j ; and a warrant Wait blitained against the and father-in-law, slid they *ere how brenigre forward and examined The great length, as r the several witnesses .. The prisoners, wh o -e eis • methodists, pleaded religion in defence : th_ wonld not lase any stranger's child in so bi'Ll t '' l ll l7 manner as represented, much less their ow n cl l b , The Worthy Magistrate observed, titer feared they were wolves in slteeps' rlothin. ; i t n . evidently more than proper correction, and sequently a case fit to be brought before a Jinn' They must find bail. The prisoners vvete g° ll/' mated in default of bail. IRELAND. TIPPERARY ELECTION.—It now appears tb„3lC Mr. Prittie fills a new character, and that t :f though he knows as well as that the Ro c " 1 - 0 Cashel is its the Count* tipp e rary, that J o no chance of being rc , torned, still be persis" the contest, because it is to cost him nothi l lg the party pay all. lint as in general arty, g °" ir ..s . e are very uneertain paymasters, we wo old 1 01 the agents, etc. to look sharp, for a day of re ; koning may be soon at hand. Nov, let 11 5 6 the friends of Mr. I'rittie, if it is fair to P" t 5( 1 : 19 4 hundreds or perhaps thousands out of the poc .-cf i of Gentlemen, merely to indulge in the wautoroli of opposition and folly ? Is it fair in Me. P ritt o to be the instrument fur doing this, al"; his old colleague to such an heavy expense,. "m ► r , he knows his purse is too light to beat It ? ( be Prittie's conduct, then, a pp ears t o ter to hr be V same in this:res)ect as a c er t a i n Justice's ki ( . 1 .,1 li who when lie went into his linnse and loci'64, his door, desired the Yeomanry to fire eocr' ‘ ir• there was no fear of him just so ntt h , ( 1 4 Prittie, for so long as th e co n t es t costs hi ° . 1 1,e thing, he little cares how long he keeP 4 l County in agitation, or puts the other c, - ar , dates to trouble and expenee.—(Hiberoit in nal, July 17.) AS3ES•IM TA:SES.—We have great pieaor acquainting the Public, th a t th e arliwg ell( s o• made by the Commissioners of E xc ise rtod,, ; ,.ig for receiving the Assess e d T axes , 81 '' )- 1 , 6 fe five per cent. discoant on prompt paymen t ' k ero f been so generally appr ove d o f, an d t he r1" 1 "',,i 0 0 1 persons anxious to take advantage of this ri ° "i io t. is so great, that the pe r iod from the ri 3tll ,, to this day, is not sufficient to comply tv'' c ", numerous applications. In consequence, th e missioners have extended the period from to the 25th inst. inclusive, which act , v 1" bear out onr frequent obseryations, ton: 1)14,0i, conduct and management of the Excit , e 13° i ce and prove, amply, that where their eau benefit the CitiZCl , l of Dublin, the Cit il ' e d may rely that the opportnnity int.?ffering serving them will nr)t be neglectr,i, As 1 " .4 gelation will entitle such as pay ( h e i r tatse s (44Veime;.: ;tee per ce nr ::) i id saving on the vt hole will he thirty per ern'''. it's/ is a deduction front the charge of the " 1 ..,V; and Hearth Tax of last year of nearly twenty-five per cent. being taken off fo r Parliament, and five per cent. being allO cc` interfr:ll,o prompt payment in the manner poinicil " t• e ete d . are glad to find every accommodation Pele e el in at the Cuttom-house, under the iinat ed ', 3 r of the Inspector of Taxes, who attends I , ccc ," purpose every day at the Collector's thm (Rid) e On Friday afternoon, a very ne wel Se e rt° sented itself to the pedestrians on Leith pi cr bd rd' Aberdeen smack had just sailed, having 0 " b s roi among other passengers, a Fiore mare, Ml ic o , 00 1 made fast upon the deck. When they had 4ii,t,i01% to the Roads, however, the animal no t Fe ‘ e , s ic" .. the nature of hzir situation, broke from tier the inks, leapt overboard, and swam direetlY Ind harbour, which she had jcost entered, whet s 0 , 0 h et i cheer from the spectatois !lightened h er o " course, and she at length landed oil o d gravel at the back of the first new dock' a gut safe ashore at the ebbing of theti_ _ l. . _ .O COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Tuestmv, Ju l L oy 0. 4 36 Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight Amstet dant Ditto, at Night 1 i 3 110, 1 ........... I 1 I i moo Rotterdam ii 10F.:‘,4 lib' Antwerp 34 3 i i C" Hamburgb 34 4 Allow% ... 24 20 L!. f. Paris, 3 Day's date Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto 1423 - fltc - .0 Frankfort on the Main ' ... • • i• 411 39 .Ed ~a(1 0 Madrid . . s 9 I;ife - Cadiz l3ilboa SBi Seville Gibraltar .................. ................ s';', ° - ''• Barcelona Leghorn Genoa... 474—Venice, Ital. i •L . r 15 44 ar OP Malta... ..:,u —Naples .......... I is. t ilio.' . 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Bish l o il p k s :. t i o ) lt: c, cor dch.a, eolar ge: b t ° e , i o l o ,vile t ei Yesterday morning, at Blackheath. of a n . 4 ,„ty d a t oe ° ls o the heart, and in her t tth year, Herter' t an „f . t oe Edward . .iterlitig, Esq. This is the third c . in 0 ,410 of listed family that has sunk into the gr" • „ s t four months. PA. „ g 9 ' W. .1 mosimairmar. • Of '''. ht . Fi' LONDON: Printed 43. IL cAitsTAIIV•,, o l d TO Jan Ormond-street, Queen-square , iiar e ; .iivi ) " - , 1 ,t a t ,, ° I SCRIPPS, Of No. 7, South • Molt titt-5tr!",,,1,0`-1 Ortice No. 112. Strand ; where Aliceit,'e'd, Letters, &c. (punt-paid) must bead drgs'